“All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our lives. In fact, if the worst thing you have ever done is speed ten miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you have put yourself and others at more risk of harm than someone smoking marijuana in the privacy of his or her living room. Yet there are people in the United States serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses, something virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world.” PeopleIfsWorldFirstsStatesDoneFactsLawUnitedRoomsMistakeUnited StatesOur LivesRiskWorstDrugTenLimitsFirst TimeSentencesSpeedHarmCriminalsMilesSmokingPrivacyMaking MistakesSinnerServingMarijuanaOffenseWorst ThingsLiving RoomUnheardFreewaysSpeed LimitsPeople Make Mistakes Book:The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“It's fairly obvious, since Richard Nixon, that there is no such thing as a fair deal for any voter in the United States -- You're just not gonna get it. It's a joke -- the people that you vote for, they're the next best thing to criminals. But of course they have money for advertising campaigns that make them look a little bit better than they actually are.” PeopleLooksLittlesStatesCoursesNextBitsUnitedDealsUnited StatesLittle BitJokesFairsVoteObviousCriminalsCampaignsAdvertisingBest ThingsVoters Author:Frank Zappa
“I'm using the death penalty to keep Alabama family safe from the most violent criminals, why? It's because it works. Recent studies have said that every time an execution is carried out in the United States, up to 75 murders are prevented the next year.” YearsSaidStatesNextUnitedUnited StatesStudySafeMurderCriminalsViolentExecutionPenaltiesDeath PenaltyNext YearAlabamaViolent Criminals Author:Troy King
“The criminal justice system is accurately symbolized by a large sculpture that sits at the foot of the United States attorney's building: four metal circles that interlock. The wheels of justice, as it were, frozen in legal and social gridlock.” StatesSocialJusticeUnitedUnited StatesFourFeetBuildingCriminalsCirclesWheelsMetalsFrozenSculptureAttorneyJustice SystemCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice SystemGridlock Author:Jonathan Larson
“Because if we make the wrong choice, then the danger is that we'll get hit again, that we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States, and that we'll fall back into the pre-9/11 mind set if you will, that in fact these terrorist attacks are just criminal acts, and that we're not really at war. I think that would be a terrible mistake for us.” IfsThinkingWayMindWarStatesFactsWould BeChoicesFallUnitedMistakeUnited StatesDangerTerribleCriminalsTerroristStandpointFall BackMind SetTerrorist AttacksWrong Choices Author:Dick Cheney
“The United States has held out against taking part in any of the world consensus that there should be a court of human rights or that there should be an international court of criminal justice.” WorldShouldHumansStatesJusticeUnitedUnited StatesRightsCourtInternationalHuman RightsCriminalsConsensusCriminal Justice Author:Roger Waters
“The United States has faced threats from criminal groups, from terrorists, from spies throughout our history, and we have limited our responses. We haven't resorted to total war every time we have a conflict around the world, because that restraint is what defines us. That restraint is what gives us the moral standing to lead the world.” WorldGivingWarStatesUnitedMoralUnited StatesGroupsHavensConflictStandingThreatResponseCriminalsTerroristAround The WorldRestraintSpyTotal War Author:Edward Snowden
“The United States has entered the ranks of the failed states. One of the most remarkable manifestations of a failed state is that the criminals are all inside the government operating against the people, whereas in a normal state, the criminals are on the outside of the government, operating against it. So, we now have every manifestation of being a failed state, with the government in the hands of a few Wall Street gangsters.” PeopleStatesHandsGovernmentUnitedUnited StatesStreetsWallNormalCriminalsManifestationRemarkableGangsters Author:Paul Craig Roberts
“The period of Prohibition - called the noble experiment - brought on the greatest breakdown of law and order the United States has known until today. I think there is a lesson here. Do not regulate the private morals of people. Do not tell them what they can take or not take. Because if you do, they will become angry and antisocial and they will get what they want from criminals who are able to work in perfect freedom because they have paid off the police.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantStatesTodayAbleLawOrderPerfectUnitedKnownMoralUnited StatesPeriodsLessonsPaidPoliceAngryNobleCriminalsExperimentsBreakdownProhibitionLaw And OrderAntisocialPaid Off Book:Matters of fact and of fiction: essays, 1973-1976 Source: Matters of fact and of fiction: essays, 1973-1976